I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.

Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.

With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.